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Re: [rhelv5-list] installing Red Hat EL 5 on a new Macpro

Jarod Wilson

2008-04-03

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On Thursday 03 April 2008 10:37:11 am Geoffrey wrote:
> Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
> >> When I attempt to boot from the Red Hat 5.1 install DVD, I see the
> >> following in the logs:
> >>
> >> ide-cd: cmd 0x28 timed out
> >> hda: DMA interrupt recovery
> >> lost interrupt
> >> lost interrupt
> >> lost interrupt
> >> lost interrupt
> >>
> >> I've tried the Red Hat 5.1 install cd as well as the Red Hat 4 install
> >> cd, same problem. Centos 5.1 gives the same issue.
> >
> > Try booting with "linux hda=noprobe"
>
> Yeah, tried that as well. It produces the same problem as the
> askmethod, where every keystroke is duplicated.

Not sure if its in 5.1, but for 5.2, there's definitely a 'intel_via_libata=1' param you can pass in to get your disk controllers handled by libata instead of the old ata stack, which matches what Fedora does. I'm assuming the MacBook Pro has Intel disk controllers, anyhow...


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